Edmund Husserl, the founder of the phenomenological movement in
philosophy and the originator of transcendental phenomenology, was
born on 8 April 1859 in Prossnitz, Moravia. He died on 27 April
1938 in Freiburg, Germany.

Husserl's early education emphasized mathematics and the natural
sciences. He studied mathematics, physics, astronomy and philosophy
at the University of Leipzig, and in 1878 studied in Berlin, a
major center for mathematical research, under the mathematicians
Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker who, strongly emphasizing
the foundations of mathematics, likely nourished Husserl's early
interest in philosophy. Husserl went on to complete a Ph.D. in
mathematics under Weierstrass with a thesis on complex …

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